On March 18, 2015 I had the opportunity to participate in a faculty symposium on the future of research libraries hosted by McGill University, where I joined   Larry Alford from the University of Toronto Libraries, MIT Libraries' Chris Bourg, and Harriette Hemmasi of Brown University Libraries in a series of presentations and a discussion. I think that the presentations came together nicely to offer a view of key issues in the development of strategies to guide the evolution of the library.

There are recordings of all the preservations, plus slides and in some cases texts at

http://www.mcgill.ca/library/about/planning/master-plan/future-libraries

My topic was collections and collecting in the 21st century, and I've got a fairly heavily edited text of my talk on the site as well.

Clifford Lynch

Director, CNI